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Author : Charles Whiting
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780099657705
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (577 download)
Download or read book The Poor Bloody Infantry written by Charles Whiting and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989-09-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. H. A. Groom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Poor Bloody Infantry written by W. H. A. Groom and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Whiting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (134 download)
Download or read book The Poor Bloody Infantry 1939-1945 written by Charles Whiting and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. M. Winter
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300081541
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (815 download)
Download or read book The Great War and the Twentieth Century written by J. M. Winter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War I, the first 'total war' in history, set in motion profound changes in the economies, demographics, and philosophies of the warring states. In this book, leading experts on the Great War discuss its causes, character, and legacy. Their writings show that to study World War I is to encounter not only the dissolution of the four defeated empires-Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey-but also the collapse of the optimistic assumption of progress that had defined the nineteenth century.
Author : Charles Whiting
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Poor Bloody Infantry written by Charles Whiting and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1987 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The six year nightmare of World War II was nowhere more hellish than in the slit trenches -- living graves where distressingly callow infantrymen did their best to be heroes. Raked and pounded in the fields of Northern France, burned and bombarded in the Western Desert, steaming and rotting in the jungles of South East Asia, the P.B.I -- Poor Bloody Infantry -- saw the sharp end of war, far from home and often far from hope ... From the half-mad dream of training camps where they polished their insteps and scrubbed floors with toothbrushes, these young men in their field grey, olive drab and khaki ... had been sent packing into the teeth of the German war machine, waking up to the terrifying reality of the front, and sometimes the beyond of human endurance. They came face to face with their enemies as drawing room generals can never do, fought and died, rejoiced in their mates, sang songs, told black jokes and looked forward to the 'dixies' of stew, the postcards from home and the breathers between bombardments"--Jacket.
Author : Charles Whiting
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781862273771
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (737 download)
Download or read book Poor Bloody Infantry, 1939-1945 written by Charles Whiting and published by Spellmount, Limited Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody in the Second World War paid a higher price for the failure of politicians and generals than the infantry, whatever their nationality. Most battalions had a 100 per cent turn over due to casualties, some as high as 200 per cent. The majority of histories of the Second World War focus on what are perceived to be the more glamorous aspects of the conflict: flying aces, new technologies, politics. However, Charles Whiting's classic book, now reprinted in paperback is in the author's own words not a history. Poor Bloody Infantry is the story of the brave men whose efforts were so central to Allied victory but which has been gravely neglected by many writers on the Second World War. Whiting's vivid account of their experiences puts the reader in the thick of their struggles: firing useless Boyes rifles at oncoming SS tanks; crouching low in foxholes beneath a yellow incandescence as the surrounding dessert rocks and roars. Detailed and personal in scope, Poor Bloody Infantry deals with all aspects of the uncomfortable day-to-day life of infantrymen in the Second World War ranging from experiences in combat to such matters as foul tinned rations and VD.
Author : Bernard Martin
Publisher : John Murray Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780719543746
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (437 download)
Download or read book Poor Bloody Infantry written by Bernard Martin and published by John Murray Publishers. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429966882
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Somme written by Martin Gilbert and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of our most distinguished historians, an authoritative and vivid account of the devastating World War I battle that claimed more than 300,000 lives At 7:30 am on July 1, 1916, the first Allied soldiers climbed out of their trenches along the Somme River in France and charged out into no-man's-land toward the barbed wire and machine guns at the German front lines. By the end of this first day of the Allied attack, the British army alone would lose 20,000 men; in the coming months, the fifteen-mile-long territory along the river would erupt into the epicenter of the Great War. The Somme would mark a turning point in both the war and military history, as soldiers saw the first appearance of tanks on the battlefield, the emergence of the air war as a devastating and decisive factor in battle, and more than one million casualties (among them a young Adolf Hitler, who took a fragment in the leg). In just 138 days, 310,000 men died. In this vivid, deeply researched account of one history's most destructive battles, historian Martin Gilbert tracks the Battle of the Somme through the experiences of footsoldiers (known to the British as the PBI, for Poor Bloody Infantry), generals, and everyone in between. Interwoven with photographs, journal entries, original maps, and documents from every stage and level of planning, The Somme is the most authoritative and affecting account of this bloody turning point in the Great War.
Author : Sally Spencer
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1448301181
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (483 download)
Download or read book Dangerous Games written by Sally Spencer and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five little Englishmen, feeling quite secure, one went and lost his head, and then there were four. When Terry Pugh's headless body is found floating in the canal, DCI Woodend at first believes that Pugh had merely miscalculated the amount of rope he needed to hang himself. But why would Pugh commit suicide when he had a loving wife who was expecting their first baby, and was just about to start an exciting new job? Other disturbing questions soon follow in the first body's wake. Who was the mysterious stranger? Pugh was seen with, just before he died? What is the connection between him and the down-and-out who suffers a similar fate to his only twenty-four hours later? And how many more men are intended to die? As the investigation proceeds, Woodend and his team come to realize that the key to solving the crimes is hidden in the past and on an island far, far away.
Author : Eric Knight
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN 13 : 1774643480
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (746 download)
Download or read book This Above All written by Eric Knight and published by Rare Treasure Editions. This book was released on 2021-11-08T13:01:00Z with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spending leave together on the South Coast during the Battle of Britain and the beginning of the blitz, Clive and Prudence have an affair. Having survived Dunkirk, but having a crisis of conscience over what the war is being fought for and disgusted at the incompetence of the ruling elite, Clive decides not to return to the Army and to go absent without leave. Deserving comparison to Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms", This Above All was heralded as the first great novel of the Second World War... and it is about the war, but first and last it is a great love story, a great adventure in thinking things through. This soldier, discharged on leave after hospitalization, meets a girl in uniform of the W.A.A.F’s - and they break through the barriers of tradition and class and come to understand what both of them really stand for.
Author : Mary Louise Roberts
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022675314X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Sheer Misery written by Mary Louise Roberts and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The senses -- The dirty body -- The foot -- The wound -- The corpse.
Author : Richard Osgood
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752495461
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Unknown Warrior written by Richard Osgood and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of the 'poor bloody infantry' and what we glean of their lot from prehistory right through to World War I. This book compares the life of the soldier across time and cultures. It includes the great battles of medieval Europe.
Author : Brian Gardner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000458334
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Churchill in his Time written by Brian Gardner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1968, analyses Winston Churchill’s war years using a wide range of little-consulted sources to give us a full and round picture of a prime minister beloved by many but disliked by others. Contemporary accounts and opinions bring us close to the reality of the man, and in doing so give us also a picture of a nation struggling with total war.
Author : Brig CB Khanduri
Publisher : Lancer Publishers LLC
ISBN 13 : 193550181X
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Field Marshal KM Cariappa written by Brig CB Khanduri and published by Lancer Publishers LLC. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Field Marshal K. M. Cariappa: His Life and Times narrates, for the first time, the full story of the life and times of India’s first Commander-in-Chief, a soldier and a diplomat and above all. a patriot. Coming immediately after his death at the age of 93, this assiduously researched biography gives a total insight into his life and deeds that have immortalised him. Cariappa’s life has been a fascinating compound of character, luck and circumstances. His meteoric rise from 1947 to the pinnacle enabled him to frame the Indian Army - and other services - into his mould of tenacity and resilience. The book, devotes itself adequately to episodes of his one-man-crusade to let the Armed Forces remain undivided for the duration of the Partition in 1947, when everyone was bent on doing so. Aspersion was cast freely on his political ambition at that time. As C-in-C his skirmish with the politically supported bureaucracy to safeguard the dignity of his office had repercussions on civilmilitary relations but he steadfastly stuck to his position. Hearing Nehru say that “the Chinese will safeguard the northern border and that, he as C-in-C should worry about J&K and Pakistan,” shook him and he could see how removed the leader was from strategic reality. Here then is a book on the life and times of Cariappa in which there is a balanced blend of biography and history which is punctuated by human episodes, anecdotes and reminiscences.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Professional Journal of the United States Army written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Filewod
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1771125047
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Reliving the Trenches written by Alan Filewod and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reliving the Trenches, three plays written by returned soldiers who served in the Great War with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium appear in print for the first time. With a critical introduction that references the authors' service files to establish the plays as memoirs, these plays are an important addition to Canadian literature of the Great War. Important but overlooked war memoirs that relive trench life and warfare as experienced by combat veterans, the three plays include The P.B.I., written and staged in 1920 by recently returned veterans at the University of Toronto. Parts of this play appeared in print in serial form in 1922. Glory Hole, written in 1929 by William Stabler Atkinson, and Dawn in Heaven, written and staged in Winnipeg in 1934 by Simon Jauvoish, have never been published. These plays impact Canadian literature and theatre history by revealing a body of previously unknown modernist writing, and they impact life writing studies by showing how memoirs can be concealed behind genre conventions. They offer fascinating details of the daily routines of the soldiers in the trenches by bringing them back to life in theatrical re-enactment.
Author : Rosie Serdiville
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750954892
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Ode to Bully Beef written by Rosie Serdiville and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War (1939–45) was not greeted with the same lavish outpouring of patriotic fervour that had attended August 1914. Any rags of glory had long since been drowned in the mud of Flanders. The Great War had been heralded as 'the war to end all wars'; veterans were promised 'a land fit for heroes'. Both of these vain boasts soon began to sound hollow as depression, unemployment, poverty and a rash of new wars followed. The sons and daughters of those who had embarked upon their own patriotic Calvary did so again in an altogether more sombre spirit. One significant difference between the two conflicts is that, whilst both were industrial wars, the Second World War was far nearer the concept of total war. The growth of strategic air power, in its infancy in 1918, had by 1939 become a reality. In this war, even more widespread and terrible than the last, there were to be no civilians. Death sought new victims everywhere; British citizens were now in the front line, there was to be no respite, no hiding place. This is the poetry and prose of those who were there, ordinary people caught in the terrible maelstrom of mass conflict on a scale hitherto unimagined; this is their testimony.
